[Gllug] Current advice for HD purchase ...

[j.roberts]

Andy Millar wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:15 +0000, j.roberts wrote:
>> Dylan wrote:
>>> What's the current best options for new HDs? Are any manufacturers
>>> to be avoided? I'm looking for up to 4 250 - 500G units for a new
>>> machine.
>> Just at the moment be very careful with Seagate drives (7200.11 and
>> BS), 500, 750, 1000. Oh, and Maxstor.
>>
>> We have had a batch with bad firmware which has been a complete PITA
>> sorting out.
> 
> I recently picked up 16 of the 1.5TB Seagate drives (with the new
> firmware that apparently isn't affected by the bug) and they seem ok.
> 
> The performance seems relatively good (400MB/s sequential read, 250MB/s
> sequential write) as well when pumped through a 3ware 9650SE.

Yeah, should have said that current production is OK, but distributors 
are still supplying the bad ones. Got some this week, as well as New HP 
servers with them fitted :(

Also this:

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/02/27/ibms_bricking_sata_drives/

MeJ
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